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<p class="MsoNormal">Does your library offer a large author event/festival? If so, could you please share your experiences. We are refreshing our Local Lit Fest collaboration with our local bookstore and want to hear what other libraries are offering. We
appreciate your help!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Do you offer incentives or prizes for patrons to stop to talk to each author? We tried a passport where authors stamped/initialed for passport to be turned in for a raffle of prizes.
We are considering if we should continue the passport, offer a different incentive, or is an incentive really needed.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Do you have an author/vendor application for your author event? Would you be willing to share it with us, please?<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Jennifer Reynard</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Cuyahoga Falls Library</b><br>
<b>p.</b> 330.928.2117 x118 <b>c.</b> 330.330.1725<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.95pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">e.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#006FC9;mso-ligatures:none">jreynard@fallslibrary.org</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
<b>w. </b><a href="https://fallslibrary.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#006FC9">fallslibrary.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">a. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">2015
Third Street, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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